A single -engine plane crashed in Tennessee on Saturday morning, killing three people on board, authorities said.
The Mooney M20TN crashed south of the Upper Cumberland Regional Airport in Sparta, according to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The director of the Regional Airport of the Upper Cumberland, Dean Selby, said that the airport heard reports that a plane was lowered at approximately 11:50 am shortly after, Memphis’s air traffic control center called the airport to say that he had lost communication and contact with an plane.
The plane left Alabama and was descending to the airport when it crashed, said Selby.
Emergency management and fire and rescue workers, along with volunteers, looked for the accident site and could find it after the airport sent a plane to search from the air, said the director.
Selby described the area where the plane was found as “remote.”
The Federal Aviation Administration, who said he is investigating, arrived on the site a few hours after the accident, said Selby. The National Transport Security Board, which leads the investigation, will arrive on Sunday.
Selby said the airport is not releasing any of the identities of the victims until family members are notified.
Sparta is about 96 miles southeast of Nashville.
Several small planes have dropped in recent weeks, every time they kill all passengers on board.
Last month, a plane crashed into a house in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Approximately two weeks later, another fell in the north of the state of New York.
Three were killed when a plane crashed into a river in Nebraska last Saturday, and four more died on Sunday when a single -engine plane crashed in Illinois.
